It would be a lot easier to arrange if we changed our lifestyles to ones based on quality of life rather than consumption, measured by a happiness index rather than GDP.

如果我们改变生活方式，以生活质量而不是消费为基础，以幸福指数而不是GDP来衡量，就更容易安排了。

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Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.

现代社会的主要特征是消费而不是储蓄。

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This access enables a programmer or user to focus on data manipulation and consumption rather than the algorithms and programming work needed to manipulate and consume the data.

这种访问能够让程序员或用户主要关注数据操纵和消费，而不用关注操纵和消费数据所需的算法和编程工作。

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Since that recovery will depend above all on net trade rather than consumption, it will be a cheerless one by recent standards.

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If you wanted to focus on investment, rather than consumption, he adds you could use the money to fund generous new investment allowances for UK businesses, instead.

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They also funnel money into investment, rather than consumption, as PAYGO plans do, which, by making the economy more productive, can help ease the burden of paying for retired workers.

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